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The Club Newsletter,Mountain Spark Gaps, has been published monthly since 2010. Prior to that it was published irregularly. Only newsletters
from the last several years are on the website. Anyone who has older copies of Mountain Spark Gaps, either hard copy or digital, please contact the webmaster to have them
added to this archive.

*** After exhaustive searching in his shack, Al K2AL was able to find a binder of many older Mountain Spark Gaps. David KC2WUF undertook the
scanning of these back issues and all available issues have been posted to the website. The binder included 1987 back through 1966 including the first issue from April 1966. ***

*** Just found additional Mountain Spark Gaps.
Jim K2UI has found and scanned almost 2 dozen back issues during the years 1988 through 1992.
These are now added to the newsletter library and available for your purusal. ***

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provides the correct version of Reader. After the download, the automatic installation process will make changes to your Windows settings, so that Windows will automatically load
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If the installation works as expected, when you click on a newsletter link above, the newsletter should display automatically. If not, then your browser will give you a
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About Adobe Acrobat files:All web pages are written in a special language called HTML. The big
advantage of HTML is that it can display a web page -- its text and images -- on almost any computer screen. The corresponding disadvantage is that it's impossible to make a
page display the exact same way on every screen. For example, it would be impossible to make our club's newsletter appear on your display looking the same as it does in print.
Likewise, you wouldn't be able to print out a well-formatted copy of the newsletter from the web either -- the printer would try to replicate the distorted copy you see on your
screen.

Acrobat files get around this limitation. In essence,a ".PDF" file is a picture of the document you want to
see. It's not text, and it can't be read by word processors. That's why you need the special reader. The reader will allow you to squeeze a whole page at a time onto
your screen; or it will let you zoom in so that you can read the print more comfortably. The reader will also allow you to print out the newsletter so that it looks nearly exactly as
it was meant to be printed. You should find a better explanation of all this at the Adobe Acrobat web site.